“Dreaming in the pussy: Cult rapper Antwon’s guide to Cocteau Twins”

• By Antwon
• FACT
• 15-Jan 2014

Schooled on punk and hardcore, Antwon broke through on 2012’s End of Earth mixtape — a moody, glowering set of industrial rap.

The San Jose rapper’s follow-up releases, including last year’s In Dark Denim, have seen him diversify, and last year’s ‘Dying In The Pussy’ proved something of a minor breakout hit. His strangest 2013 adventure, however, was a somewhat surprising single release on UK indie Bella Union — a label better known for sweet-scented folk-pop (Fleet Foxes, Midland, Beach House) than anything resembling rap.

There’s some curious logic at work, though: Bella Union is run by Simon Raymonde of legendary 4AD outfit Cocteau Twins, of whom Antwon has long been a huge — and, given his line in boom-bap smut, unexpected — fanboy. As such, we asked Antwon to walk us through his favourite ever tracks by the Scottish trio — masterminds of some of the 1980s’ most luxuriant records, and the band without whom that lightly-thrown epithet “dream-pop” probably couldn’t exist.

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